Course Outline
Introduction
Setting up Tableau
Overview of Tableau Features and Architecture
Navigating the Tableau User Interface
Connecting to your data
Organizing, Filtering, Sorting & Grouping
- Organizing your data
 - Slicing your data by date
 - Simplifying and sorting your data
 - Advanced options for filtering and hiding
 - Understanding many options for ordering and grouping your data
 - Sort, Groups, Bins, Sets
 - Interrelation between all options
 
Working with Data in Tableau
- Using multiple measures in a view
 - Showing the relationship between numerical values
 - Viewing specific values
 - Customizing your data
 - Dimension vs Measure
 - Data types, discrete versus continuous for measure
 - Joining database sources
 - Inner, outer, left, right join
 - Blending different datasources in a single worksheet
 - Working with extracts instead of live connections
 - Data quality problems
 - Metadata and sharing a connection
 
Calculations on Data and Statistics
- Row-level calculations
 - Aggregate calculations
 - Arithmetic, string, date calculations
 - Custom aggregations and calculated fields
 - Control-flow calculations
 - What is behind the scene
 - Advanced statistics
 - Working with dates and times
 
Analyzing Data with Table Calculations
- Quick table calculations
 - Scope and direction
 - Addressing and partitioning
 - Advanced table calculations
 
Advanced Geo techniques
- Building basic maps
 - Geographic fields, map options
 - Mapping data geographically
 - Customizing a geographic view
 - Web Map Service (WMS)
 - Visualizing non geographical data with background images
 - Mapping tips
 - Distance calculations
 
Parameters in tableau
- Creating parameters
 - Parameters in calculated fields
 - Parameter control options
 - Enhancing analysis and visualizations with parameters
 
Building Basic and Advanced Visualizations
- Cross tabs
 - Geographic maps, heat maps and tree maps
 - Pie charts and bar charts
 - Date and time visualizations and gantt charts
 - Stacked bars and area charts
 - KPI charts and pareto charts
 - Dual axis and combined charts with different mark types
 - Highlight tables
 - Scatter Plots
 - Bar chart variations - bullet charts, bar-in-bar
 
Advanced formattting
- Labels
 - Legends
 - Highlighting data with reference lines
 - Annotations
 
Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
- Dashboard framework
 - Filter actions
 - Highlight actions
 - URL actions
 - Cascading filters
 
Trends and Forecasting
- Understanding and customizing trend lines
 - Distributions
 - Forecasting
 
Integrating Tableau and R for advanced data analytics
- Possibility to include different data analytics methods in R on participants request
 
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- Experience with business intelligence and data visualization.
 
Audience
- Data analysts
 - Data scientists
 
Testimonials (3)
The Practice, I created a dashboard is super easy, once time understand the subjects.
Luis Fernando - si
Course - Tableau Fundamentals to Advanced
Hand's on exercise under the control of trainer. All attendees were thus highly encouraged to participate.
Gerard Suissa - Brown-Forman France
Course - Tableau Fundamentals to Advanced
The trainer answered all of my questions and gives us a walkthrough.